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Argentina: Enchantment of the World,
This
is a book which put out by scholastic in 2007 and written by Jean Blashfield It is a fairly good geography
of Argentina. I has plenty of pictures which talk about some of the
wonders in Argentina. It talks of the water falls, and the high
mountains, of the different zones. One of the things I did not know
about was the cave of the hands in Southern Argentina. This impressed
me. (It is a theme at the first of the movie Croods where they imply
the hand means “no”.)
This
book is very thorough, from talk about the animals, to the people, to
the landscape, to the history. It talks about everyday life, including
mate, alfajores, carne asado and empanadas. It misses talking about
dulce, but it does point out that over 90 percent of Argentines are of
European descent. The mestizo and indigenous populations are small. It
mentions a large middle class, but then a third of the population live
in poverty. It mentions the slums or villas. It talks about the love
of sport, including soccer and polo.
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thing I didn’t like about the book is its portrayal of Che Guevara as a
hero. It only says he thought Communism was the way to go, and does
not mention the in fact he was affiliated with a murderous
dictatorship and murdered people himself.
It
does an adequate job of talking about los desaparecidos (the
disappeared) and the history of dictatorships in Argentina. It includes
a little piece on butch Cassidy, which also seems out of place. It
also handles the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) War.
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